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The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$165k10%
FY20248$140k0%
FY202311$165k18%
FY202211$173k18%
FY20219$160k67%
FY20209$160k11%
FY20199$156kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$422kEducation$327kCrime & Legal$105kInternational$102kFood & Nutrition$60kReligion$60kHousing & Shelter$40kArts & Culture$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
NE
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network: $165,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetScholarship and Welfare Fund of the Alumni Association of Hunter College Inc: $121,400 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLutheran Family Services of Ne Inc: $112,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAim High: $80,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio: $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetProject Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetA Is for Africa Ltd: $70,400 over 7y, 14% of budgetCanal Alliance: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Social Services of Madison Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRaphael House of San Francisco Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHias Inc: $31,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManna Food Center Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAim High for High School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily & Children's Law Center: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc

How much does The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc give?
The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Education (29%), Crime & Legal (9%).
Who are The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network ($165k), Scholarship and Welfare Fund of the Alumni Association of Hunter College Inc ($121k), Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc ($112k).
Does The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc based?
The Ethel & Joseph Spatz Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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